Court to decide if protests can be mounted in square before Parliament Building

23.09.2015 15:50
1364
2 minute(s)

The court is to pass judgment over the staging of protests in the square before the Parliament Building. The local public authorities decided to go to court after the representatives of the Civic Platform “Dignity and Truth” and of the Party of Socialists (PSRM) and “Our Party” (PPPN) could not reach a compromise as to the mounting of a protest in front of the Parliament Building on September 27, IPN reports.

Head of the Chisinau City Hall’s Legal Assistance Division Diana Gurschi said the preliminary statements submitted by the applicants were examined at two meetings that involved representatives of all the sides, but a consensus could not be reached. Therefore and following an application from the State Guard and Protection Service, which requested not authorizing demonstrations on that place because the legislation on the protection of the territory adjoining the Parliament Building is violated, it was decided to file a lawsuit. “We will demand banning any demonstration by any applicant in the square before the Parliament Building,” she stated.

Attending the meeting, the representatives of the PSRM and PPPN said they filed the preliminary application asking authorizing a protest in the square on September 27 the first, but certain changes were made to the submission date and thus the Platform “Dignity and Truth” appears to be the first. However, they are ready to accept a compromise and to protest by half a day each, but the representatives of the Platform refused to discuss such a possibility.

The members of the Platform “Dignity and Truth” said they filed the application before the Socialists and repeatedly announced from the rostrum set up in the Great National Assembly Square that the September 6 protest will be continued and will be held on a permanent basis and that tents will be also put up in front of other state institutions, including the Parliament Building.

The sides said yet that they will comply with a court decision. According to Diana Gurschi, such a decision will be most probably pronounced by the end of this weak.